The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative, led by US Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr, aims to “tackle chronic diseases, improve nutrition and reduce healthcare costs.” To achieve these laudable goals, members of the MAHA movement have set out to reform American health policies on issues such as nutrition and vaccines and what
as cases of With the diarrhea-causing cyclospora parasite on the rise in the United States, former employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the country’s response is being severely hampered by staff cuts at the agency. Amid massive government layoffs implemented last year by President Donald Trump and his so-called Department of
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Hot dogs, beach days and iced tea on the porch are some of the rites of summer. But in an era of global warming, a new ritual has emerged: quelling the smoke from wildfires burning hundreds of miles or more away. The Midwest, Northeast and parts of Canada have been bombarded by thick smoke that
The revolving-door leadership of the nation’s top public health agency took another possible turn Wednesday, when Dr. Erica Schwartz’s nomination came before a U.S. Senate committee. Schwartz, 54, is running for director of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, charged with protecting Americans from preventable health threats. His career has been spent largely
The latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda is one of the largest on record, with more than 1,700 cases confirmed since April. Dozens of governments and health organizations are supporting the public health response caused by the Bundibugyo species of Ebola virus. Their approaches reveal how global health